ACC ~ Romans 11 v26

ALL ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED. ORIGEN: What “all Israel” means or what the fullness of the Gentiles will be only God knows along with his only begotten Son and perhaps a few of his friends, as he said: “I no longer call you servants but friends, for I have made known to you everything which I have heard from my Father.” COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

DIODORE: What does it mean to say that “all Israel will be saved?” Just as we say that the whole world and all the nations are being saved because everywhere and among all nations there are those who are coming to faith, so also “all Israel will be saved” does not mean that every one of them will be but that either those who were understood by Elijah or those who are scattered all over the world will one day come to faith. PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH.

SET FREE BY GRACE. AMBROSIASTER: God will give them back the free exercise of their will so that, because their unbelief did not spring from malice but from error, they may be put right and afterward be saved. . . .

Paul quotes Isaiah in order to prove that God has reserved a gift for them, in order to teach that they can be set free by the same grace by which the believing Jews have already been set free, because he is not empty but always full of grace. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

A TRUER ISRAEL. AUGUSTINE: Not all the Jews were blind; some of them recognized Christ. But the fullness of the Gentiles comes in among those who have been called according to the plan, and there arises a truer Israel of God … the elect from both the Jews and the Gentiles. LETTER 149.

PELAGIUS: Some interpreters regard all these events as future. To them one must reply: Then this prophecy … must still take place, and Christ will come again to set them free. If they have been blinded temporarily by God and not by themselves, what will become of those who are now perishing as unbelievers? PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

ISRAEL CALLED AT THE END. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: Although it was rejected, Israel will also be saved eventually, a hope which Paul confirms by quoting this text of Scripture. For indeed, Israel will be saved in its own time and will be called at the end, after the calling of the Gentiles. EXPLANATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS.

DEFINING “ALL ISRAEL.” THEODORET OF CYR: “All Israel” means all those who believe, whether they are Jews, who have a natural relationship to Israel, or Gentiles, who are related to Israel by faith. INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS.

SALVATION INDISPUTABLE. GENNADIUS OF CONSTANTINOPLE: When their sins are taken away and forgiven their salvation will be clear and indisputable. PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH.

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